“Top 10 Beast TV Reseller” Faces Lawsuit For Selling Pirate IPTV Packages
Popular pirate IPTV service Beast TV built one of the most recognizable brands the illicit sector had even seen. That…
Popular pirate IPTV service Beast TV built one of the most recognizable brands the illicit sector had even seen. That…
The theory that “nobody likes a snitch” depends heavily on individual circumstances, motivation, and who stands to benefit. Whistleblowers, on…
When companies want to increase sales of their products, marketing teams work extremely hard to ensure that the target audience…
Private criminal prosecutions are complex and expensive but can also offer some great perks; the taxpayer picking up the bill…
In recent years, many people have canceled their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper Internet TV instead. Those who…
In July 2021, U.S. broadcaster DISH Network and subsidiary Sling TV filed a copyright lawsuit in a Texas district court…
Copyright infringement lawsuits against pirate IPTV providers and those accused of assisting them, usually have a few common elements. To…
Adult entertainment company MG Premium has left no stone unturned in its three-year legal standoff with the operator of piracy…
Filed in February 2022, a DISH Network copyright infringement lawsuit demanded $32.5m in damages from UK-based CDN company DataCamp. The…
In October 2021 when DISH Network filed yet another lawsuit against a pair of IPTV sellers in the United States,…
In February 2022, U.S. broadcaster DISH Network filed a $32.5m lawsuit against DataCamp, claiming that the UK-based CDN company failed…
In November 2018, DISH Network filed a copyright complaint against Jadoo TV, a distributor of self-branded set-top IPTV boxes and…
Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then…
Hosting companies, CDN platforms and consumer ISPs face an increasing risk of being held liable for the activities of their…
Offering piracy-related services is a serious offense in the UK for which several vendors have received multi-year prison sentences in…
When the first pirate site blocking applications began to gather momentum in Europe, those concerned about where it all might…
Operators of pirate IPTV services in the United States risk prison sentences and civil copyright infringement lawsuits when things don’t…
Focusing on MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL content, Hehestreams was no ordinary IPTV service. Instead of copied streams, captured from…
After entering a guilty plea some time ago, former pirate IPTV service operator Bill Omar Carrasquillo was sentenced Tuesday in…
In September 2021, a grand jury returned a 62-count indictment charging Bill Omar Carrasquillo with crimes related to his Gears-branded…
In May 2018, a massive copyright infringement lawsuit targeted PrimeStreams, one of the most recognizable pirate IPTV brands ever to…
Late January, Michael Barone filed an important document at a district court in Pennsylvania. With his freedom on the line,…
Advanced TV Network (ATN) was an IPTV service in Sweden that supplied more than a thousand TV channels to customers…
For the past several years, Chinese-manufactured Ubox IPTV boxes have flooded the market in Taiwan. With more than 30% of…
When the federal government shut down pirate IPTV services owned by Pennsylvania and New Jersey man, Bill Omar Carrasquillo in…
Numerous reports published by the European Union over the past decade have linked higher levels of content piracy with lacking…
After being sued by DISH Network in 2021, former Nitro TV operators Alex Galindo, Anna Galindo, Martha Galindo, and Osvaldo…
More than two years ago the federal government shut down Gears-branded IPTV services operated by Pennsylvania and New Jersey man,…
In March 2021, DISH Network filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against pirate IPTV provider ChitramTV, demanding $31 million in damages….
Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga has been waging war against pirate sites and services for the past several years. In…
Some players in the pirate IPTV market view subscription sales as little more than a side hustle, one that brings…
When users of popular IPTV provider SmoothStreams.tv began reporting issues with the service mid-July, few could’ve predicted events to follow….
When several major studios filed a copyright lawsuit against PrimeWire last year, it shouldn’t have come as much of a…
After gaining serious momentum over the past seven years, the pirate IPTV phenomenon is now a major challenge for the…
In April 2020, Columbia Pictures, Amazon Content Services, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, plus three companies owned by…
Over the past two decades, pirate sites and services frequented by millions of users have been shut down following legal…
Starting in the early part of the last decade, large numbers of technically-minded individuals began selling piracy-configured set-top boxes to…
In September 2021, U.S. broadcaster DISH Network filed a copyright infringement complaint in a Michigan court targeting two sets of…
This September, TorrentFreak was provided with information relating to Marvel Streams UK, a pirate IPTV service that suddenly disappeared in…
Selling piracy-configured set-top boxes or subscriptions that enables access to pirated TV streams can lead to both civil and criminal…
US broadcaster DISH Network has a reputation for chasing down anyone involved in piracy of its content. From large IPTV…
Following more than a year of legal action, DISH Network has booked yet another big money win against yet another…
Rightsholders seeking to crack down on pirate streaming services in the UK can do so under civil and criminal law…
Early September, Swedish anti-piracy group Rattighetsalliansen (Rights Alliance) reported on a trial that took place at the specialist Patent and…
After winning three lawsuits against three pirate streaming sites, earlier this year a coalition of Israel-based media companies obtained an…
As the battle against pirate IPTV services continues, beIN Media Group today announced early success in new legal action. The…
For more than 15 years, most piracy headlines in Sweden had some connection to The Pirate Bay. Perhaps anti-piracy groups…
Publicizing the closure of a big pirate service, the arrest of its operators, and the seizure of their assets, is…
In August 2021, US broadcaster DISH Network, Sling and NagraStar sued pirate IPTV service Nitro TV. The case focused on…
In April 2022, several Hollywood studios and Netflix won an injunction to shut down PrimeWire, a long-standing illegal streaming site…